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DO WE HAVE TO CALL IT ‘DIVERSITY’?
Follow @legalaware Ambiguous term is stunting debate, says LegalAware The word ‘diversity’ is an unhelpful...
LEGAL BODY IN FRESH ONLINE BLUNDER
Follow @pondcat First, the bar’s awful ‘Pupillage Portal’; now the solicitors’ regulator has run into...
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THE BLOGGERS, JOIN THEM
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Continuing snobbery towards legal blogging betrays journalists’ fear that evolving medium could do...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Social mobility champion of the week @TheInnerTemple, with...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LIVE (metaphorically) FROM THE CHANCERY LANE TWEETUP
Legal Cheek brought its army of sound crew and technicans along to the excellent #TweetingLegals...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I can’t get a training contract’
Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I finished my LPC this summer and I still don’t...
‘WE SHOULD GO FOR A DRINK…’
Follow @debbiematthews1 …No we shouldn’t, thinks Deborah Matthews, continuing her tales about predatory male lawyers...
‘YOU HAVE TO EAT DINNER TO QUALIFY AS A BARRISTER?!’
Follow @FellowsAdam Adam Fellows explains the eccentric world of the inns of court Despite the...
WHO SAID ARTS DEGREES WERE EASY?
Follow @LaurenceMills My Oxford history degree was no soft option, says City trainee-to-be Laurence Mills...
‘THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE WERE REFERRED TO AS THE OLD BAILEY’
Follow @thomashurst Corporate lawyer Thomas Hurst didn’t rate ITV’s new drama ‘The Jury’ much On...
IN-HOUSE LAWYER’S SHOWDOWN WITH MURDOCH
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Former News of the World legal chief can make in-house lawyers proud in...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Poorly disguised Twitter boast of the week (brought...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: PROTESTS, DISCRIMINATION AND MEMORIES OF PRINCESS DI
Civil liberties lawyer Sophie Khan has a very different take on the OccupyLondon protests to...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS
Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, My law firm, where I’m a newly qualified solicitor, is...
OCCUPIED WITH THEMSELVES
Follow @TheTCHawk The OccupyLSX protesters have lost sight of their original objectives, says law graduate...
LEGAL CHEEK FIELD TRIP TO OCCUPY LONDON
When I got a tip-off from Kevin Poulter last Friday about a legal tent at...
TAMING SEX-CRAZED MALE LAWYERS: A GUIDE
Follow @debbiematthews1 Forget complicated legal conundrums, the real problem in law firms is the men,...
#TwitterLawPoems: Dear @PegasusCorpInfo
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Dear @PegasusCorpInfo, You’ve #ff’d me now every Friday for 6 months or so,...
ETHNIC MINORITIES DON’T ‘FIT THE IMAGE’
Follow @khan_sophie It’s harder to get on in law if you’re not white, argues solicitor-advocate...
LAW CONVERSION COURSE IS ‘MAD CRUSH OF KNOWLEDGE’
Follow @catpond Lawyer-to-be Cat Pond is relieved to put the ten-month Graduate Diploma in Law...
#TweetsOfTheWeek
Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Poorly disguised Twitter boast of the week @John_Cooper_QC...